For residents here, that means a lot of crowding and traffic and a dearth of parking in a city where many people already have problems finding spots for their vehicles. While residents could lean heavily on transportation options like taxis, Uber (with surge pricing!), and Lyft, the problem of parking is, well, a problem. God isn’t making any more parking spaces, and so if you don’t have a spot in one of the neighborhoods affected by these events, you could have a problem finding some.

Enter ParkPlease, a new marketplace for parking spots. Like Airbnb for parking, the startup lets people who have spare room in their driveways to rent that out to others who need a place to park. The startup made a bit of a splash around Outside Lands, which is another music festival like Hardly Strictly that takes place in Golden Gate Park. It parked more than 1,000 vehicles during that event and ever since, it’s been busy adding parking inventory all over the city, including some areas that will be affected by this weekend’s events.

But for those who are going to the America’s Cup viewing area or checking out Fleet Week activities over the weekend, it’s got another option: ParkPlease has partnered up with Limos.com to provide relatively low-cost parking and party bus shuttles to and from those events. On Saturday and Sunday, users will be able to park at a lot in SOMA for $40 and get complementary shuttle service to and from the Marina. Shuttles will be running every 20 minutes to drop people off and pick them up throughout the day, so they won’t have to drive to find parking along with the other hundreds of thousands of people who plan to attend.

The promotion fits in with ParkPlease’s mission, which co-founder Charlie Ansanelli says is to “make parking stress-free.” That means helping users find parking even when there aren’t major events happening. The goal is to connect demand with supplies. And like other marketplaces, the company takes a small fee for all transactions that happen on its system. But in a weekend like this, it’s a good option to have, regardless.

Anyway, go out, get parking, and try not to sweat all the annoying tourists visitors everywhere, people.

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OverviewParkPlease is an online service that aims to solve the parking crisis in urban and dense areas.
Described as the "AirBnb or Lyft" of parking, ParkPlease is a social community that lets neighbors easily rent their idle parking spaces to commuters in need. For commuters, ParkPlease makes it easy to discover secret parking spaces that otherwise were not available. Commuters can quickly discover …

OverviewLimos.com is an online and mobile marketplace that connects passengers to affordable and trusted limo and private car services worldwide. From stress-free wedding day transportation to affordable town cars for your next business trip, Limos.com has over 41,000 available vehicles in 370 destinations across 62 countries.
Compare vehicles, prices, rider ratings and customer reviews to find the perfect …